Pythagoras and the desire to know
The historical information concerning the philosopher Pythagoras are sometimes unclear or data full of mystery, but almost surely it must be right to the "mystic" born in Samos in about 570 BC the merit of having invented the term philosophy, which means love of wisdom or desire to know, as well as perhaps the first attempt to find a precise relationship between mathematics, music, geometry, and harmony of opposites between starting study would be the length of the strings music and relationships octave. Many of the health associations and hygiene practices both in the field of food, apparel, and about the habits of life of almost monastic type were tested own by Pythagoras to whom we owe the development of mathematical theorems, the study of polygons.. to remember then the tetraktys, the equilateral triangle formed by 10 points 1+2+3+4, the use of the square and the number at the base and explanation of almost all things.
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Date: 19/07/2009
article n°: 1026
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